book discussion guide: the heaven tree
The Heaven Tree Trilogy is our summer selection for our boxed lunch book club. We are discussing one part of the trilogy during each of the summer months. Set in Medieval England on the border of Wales, the story is a complete departure from anything we’ve done so far in our book club. Kings and [...]
book discussion guide: secret language
Boxed Lunch Book Club Today!
My discussion questions are a little slim, but mainly we are just going to talk about sisters! Sisters are the best…and the worst. I love my sister, but we hated each other for several years there before we realized we couldn’t live without one another! I’m hoping that reading this book [...]
book discussion guide: small ceremonies
Our Boxed Lunch Book Club meets tomorrow from 12-1. This month we are discussing Carol Shields novel, Small Ceremonies (1976), which is about a biographer named Judith who collects details about people and events. Interestingly, in the novel, Judith is writing a biography about Canadian pioneer Susanna Moodie and in the same year that this [...]
book discussion guide: sound of waves
Here’s the book discussion guide I used for our boxed lunch book club back in February The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima.
1. Love at first sight.
Here’s a quote from Chapter 2 (p.13) right after Shinji has seen Hatsue for the first time.
Shinji always went to sleep easily, but last night he had the strange [...]
book discussion guide: wisdom in the waiting
Tomorrow is our Boxed Lunch Book Club at church, and I have been working on quotes and questions for our time together. I have thought about posting these book discussion guides in the past months that we have done this book club, but haven’t ever managed to get around to it. I usually search discussion [...]
sourire
In spite of being on the couch for three days with an exploding head cold,
I have been collecting things in my heart that are making me smile.
Here they are.
My front yard is almost entirely dirt and weeds, the result of children playing football and having lightsaber wars, but I have a few flower beds that [...]
my favorite valentine
…is a book of course.
And because the outpouring of sweets is abundant at school, I give my kiddos books for valentine’s as well. This year Cole is getting Inkheart, Mary Polly a new Ivy and Bean, Ben a new My Weird School and Simon a new Mr. Putter.
In case you are looking for a book [...]
january’s boxed lunch book club selection
This week I’ve been getting ready for our boxed lunch book club that we do once a month at church. This month’s book is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. For several days I’ve been rereading my favorite parts of this book and am amazed anew at the way Maya Angelou [...]
book club
I am rereading Lying Awake by Mark Salzman for our Boxed Lunch Book Club* at church this week, and I forgot how wonderful it is. I am equally baffled this time as in my last reading at the intimacy with which this author portrays a cloistered group of nuns. First of all he is a [...]
my month to host
At church this fall, Whitney and I are hosting what we are calling a Boxed Lunch Book Club. I am super excited about it, but I am a little nervous. Because lots of other people are super excited about it too, so I have sold like 20 books. I am used to a book club [...]
